SpiNNaker [1]}, [2]}, [3]} is a massively parallel, multi-core computing system designed by the Advanced Processor Technologies (APT) Research Group from the University of Manchester. It was designed under the HBP [4]} for simulating parts of the brain by using SNN. SpiNNaker machines consist of SpiNNaker chips, which have eighteen 200-Hz ARM968 processor cores each [5]}. This allows an asynchronous communication infrastructure for sending short packages (each of them representing a particular neuron firing) [6]} identified using AER [7]}. Different SpiNNaker machines were built and commercialized, including SpiNN-3 and SpiNN-5, with 4 and 48 SpiNNaker chips each, respectively. They also include the spinnlinks [8]}, which allow real-time input/output interfacing with neuromorphic sensors and other neuromorphic platforms such as FPGA [9]}, [10]}, [11]}. A PyNN-based [12]} software package called sPyNNaker [13]} can be used to design and implement SNN on these machines. The recently built million-core machine is at the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester that can be used through the HBP portal. In this work, a SpiNN-5 machine was used to run the simulations proposed.
